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<div style="font-size:300%"> Adverbs ending in  —ment derived from the masculine form of an adjective</div>
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Where an adjective ends in formed from the masculine -/' (not -oi), -é, or -u (not -eau or -ou), the adverb is form:


{| class="wikitable"
!Adjective
!Feminine 
!English
!Adverb
!English
|-
|absolu
|absolue 
|absolute 
|absolument 
|absolutely
|-
|ambigu
|ambiguë 
|ambiguous 
|ambigument 
|ambiguously
|-
|aisé
|aisée 
|easy 
|aisément 
|easily
|-
|joli
|jolie 
|pretty
|joliment 
|prettily
|-
|vrai 
|vraie 
|true 
|vraiment 
|truly
|}

== Exception: ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Adjective
!Feminine 
!English
!Adverb
!English
|-
|Gai
|gaie 
|cheerful
|gaiement 
|cheerfully
|}

== Circumflex accent in the adverbial form ==

Seven adjectives which end in -u but add a circumflex accent in the adverbial form are:

{| class="wikitable"
!Adjective
!Feminine 
!English
!Adverb
!English
|-
|assidu
|assidue
|assiduous
|assidûment
|assiduously
|-
|continu
|continue
|continuous
|continûment
|continuously
|-
|cru
|crue
|crude
|crûment
|crudely
|-
|dû
|due
|owed
|dûment
|duly
|-
|goulu
|goulue
|greedy
|goulûment
|greedily
|-
|incongru
|incongrue
|incongruous
|incongrûment
|incongruously
|-
|indu
|indue
|inappropriate
|indûment
|inappropriately
|}

==Videos==

===French Adverbs (ending in MENT, adverbs of time, frequency, time ...===
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMrL8Lph9dY</youtube>

===French Lesson 99 - Adverbs of manner - YouTube===
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hijHH7sJ4ts</youtube>

===How to form French Adverbs of Manner - YouTube===
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM9lusc6IKQ</youtube>

===French Grammar - How To Form ADVERBS In French - YouTube===
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeZDgGaLTWI</youtube>

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